I'm Vitaliy β software QA by day, kitchen builder by obsession. This is how six garage prototypes became a product.
When you plan kitchens long enough, you develop strong opinions about storage. Mine was about wall cabinets: the first shelf is fully usable, the front half of the second is acceptable, and everything above that requires a ladder and optimism. You're not storing things there β you're archiving them. I spent years looking for a pull-down system that didn't waste space or cost a fortune. Nothing fit. I moved on.
When I built my own garage workbench, the answer seemed obvious: WallControl metal pegboards, 18 inches above the bench, 16 inches wide, perfect stud spacing. No cabinets. Direct access. Clean.
But after using it for a while, the pattern came back. The lower hooks were always in reach. The upper section was loaded with tools I'd stopped thinking about. A full pegboard where 30% is actually used isn't better than a cabinet β it just has smaller doors.
Then YouTube delivered two videos that reframed the whole problem.
The first β the "drawbinet" β was a full cabinet redesigned as a single pull-out drawerβsmart engineering, but still a lot of plywood and a huge question - why get rid of pegboards? Aren't they perfect doors for a workshop? The second video - a double-sided pull-out with no cabinet, no walls between units. Just a spine on slides that comes to you.
That was the missing piece. The wall storage doesn't have to be fixed or boxed. It shouldn't have sides, top, or back. Just a spine with a front and a bottom for emotional support.
The solution: a plywood spine on drawer slides, mounted to studs. The existing WallControl pegboard panels are screwed to the face. A plywood bottom shelf. A few additional shelves attached directly to the spine and a front panel. Pull it out β everything swings into the room. Every tool, every bolt in a bin, both sides, fully accessible at once. Plus, fully loaded 16x32 metal pegboard. I built six of them. Still running.
Using them every day raised some peculiar questions β the ones that became VitaReach:
Why bother with a plywood spine when the pegboard itself can be structural?
Is a front panel always necessary, or is a simple pegboard spine enough?
What happens when a spine is too close to a side wall β how do you access both sides?
Does every spine need to land on a stud?
Should this system be 12" deep?
How to provide a clean parallel pull-out support with cantilevers?
Can this system be distributed?
Each question had a real answer. The pegboard became the spine β the TroveBlade, with hooks accessible on both faces when drawn. The front-panel version became TroveBlade Plus: a third pegboard face and a bottom shelf for everything hooks can't hold. The side version was tested with the spine loaded on one side only. The whole system got proper engineering β 2020 aluminum extrusion, precision slides rated to 100 or 150LB, configurable depth β and professional installation, so it goes up correctly the first time.
The name came from two words that describe exactly what it does. A trove β a store of hidden value, revealed when you reach for it. A blade β thin, vertical, double-sided, precise. Pull it out and both sides face you at once. That's a TroveBlade.
Same problem that's been annoying garage and workshop owners for years. A more honest answer to it. Patent pending.
